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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Looking for new, bright & cheery papers? They're here! Three of Cosmo Crickets newest releases JUST arrived this afternoon! You just have to see for yourself how fun they are... I can't even decide which of the two sides is my favourite pattern on most papers! The new familes are Snorkel, Girl Friday, and Lil' Man. We also recieved a few patterns from Chemistry.

We have quite a few paper patterns to choose from, Rub-Ons from each collection, and also some stickers and chipboard stickers... come check it out!

Friday, March 27, 2009

The next round of classes are here and I think you will agree they are some of our girl's best yet! Now I know I say this every time, but honestly, they are constantly amazing us with their beautiful designs.

Linda and Pauline have two fabulous card classes and we have a new teacher, Laurie, who will wow you with her creativeness and eye for detail. Have a look below for information regarding the classes:

Please call or stop into the store to sign up for classes (DO NOT EMAIL)

Classes must be paid for within 48 hours or you will be bumped from the class

You can pay in person or call with credit card information

Kenya/Kitty by Linda

These cards speak for themselves! A must for any cardmaker interested in improving their skills of using coloured pencils and gamsol. You will also work with the Cuttlebug, nestabilities, embossing folders, glitter, creating backgrounds, working with decorative papers and ribbon.

Beautiful. Adorable. And just way too much fun for one class! Pauline will show you how to add dimension and beautiful embellishments to make your cards look very "professional". The Cuttlebug along with nestabilities and embossing folders will be used. You will work with gamsol and coloured pencils. Accents include glitter, ribbon, prima flowers, ribbon and more.

Dates: Wednesday, April 8th OR Tuesday, April 21

Time: 6PM

Cost: $15+gst

Required Supplies: adhesive, scissors, pencil

Suggested Supplies: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dot embossing folder

Bus to Scrapfest!

Seats are still available for the trip to Kitchener for Scrapfest 2009!

Friday, March 20, 2009

Growing up in our house, each Birthday was such a HUGE deal! And, it should be... that is your very own special day! There are 7 people in our family, and all Birthdays fall between March and June, so it seemed like almost every other week we were having another birthday party!

Now that our family has expanded so much (with 3 spouses and 4 kids), our birthday season runs a little longer... from March to August we celebrate 12 Birthdays! (the other 2 are right after Christmas). Talk about a run of Birthdays!!! No wonder why cake is one of my favourite foods!

On the weekend we celebrated Julia's, my Mom and Kim's Birthdays. I was SO excited to have a chance to get out all my supplies and make some cards! After I gave the gifts, I quickly took the cards back, to take pic's, and they've now ended up in the store... that seems to happen alot!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Once again I am LOVING orange! This patterned paper is from one of the new companies we ordered from (g.c.d.)

If you zoom in to the pic, you can see I sanded the edges of the core'dinations cardstock... I love this cardstock! We actually replaced most of our 12x12 cardstock to this! The inside colour is actually different, so if you sand it or tear it, it shows!

The bird stamp is from Inkadinkado, and the Happy Birthday from Amuse.

Happy Birthday Kim!

Isn't this stamp just too adorable?!?

It is from Hero Arts. I stamped it once on white cardstock, and again on a light yellow g.c.d. paper. (You can see where I pieced the bird, leaf, heart and flower).

I added some of those awesome Karen Foster Sparkle Brads in the centre of the flowers, and of course added a bit of glitter! The yellow polka dot background is again g.c.d...

Happy Birthday Jules!

What's better for a three year old's card , than a big 3-d sparkly cupcake and lots of PINK!

This card took almost no time! I used Maya Roads raw chipboard (in the cute tins), and painted each piece. Each piece is separate, so you build your own cupcake, whatever size you want! After painting, I covered "celebrate" and the heart with glitter! The top of the cupcake I used liquid applique first and then covered it with glitter!

The striped paper is g.c.d. AGAIN... Hmmm, I'm starting to notice a trend here... am I playing favourites!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Kell has received her invite so I am now able to post Julia's invite! I am quite pleased with how it turned out. You honestly don't know how long I looked at "the wall" to find the right stamps! I was going to use one of Amy Smyth's triple cupcake stamp (since my girl will now be three...already!). Then I spotted it....Inkadinkado's new retro tree stamp. I just HAD to use it. Somehow Amy Smyth's bee stamp happened to come home with me and when I dumped out my supplies, the stamps collided and that was it! Bee. Tree. Three!!!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I just wanted to let you know about a great event that is coming up THIS Saturday. It is the Zonta Card Making Extravaganza taking place Saturday March 7th from 10AM-4PM. You will rotate through the various stations and make 6-10 cards over the course of the day. We will be there too! It is a great event....grab a friend and treat yourself to a day to stamping and come craft with us!!

Please see the poster to the left for more information or call us at 519.351.5220. Tickets are available at the store!